SM>>> Thaat's /Mac/Ewans, laddie, an' they'r ma neighbors, doown
ain tha glen
 SM>>> near Aberdeen. Tha Scotch Malt liquor thaat they make ais joost what
 SM>>> they du with tha leftovars...

 BF>> In fact it is McEwans

 SM> Ach, tha MacEwen's are septs o' tha MacLauglin's, an' niethar clan likes
 SM> to talk aboout tha "Mc" paart o' tha famalies...

 BF>> and it is the best beer in the world and if you
 BF>> didn't know this, you ain't a genuin Scotish.

 SM> Of /course/ ait ais, laddie, bacause ait's Scotch! Ye'll /nae/ find a
 SM> smoothar ale at 8 par cent /anywhare/ ain the worlld!

 BF>> All medium-brown that glimmer ain't whiskey.
 BF>> The next test for you is to prounounce
 BF>> "roundabout" in Scotish and if you can do that
properly I might consider
 BF>> to take you for English. A clue is to ask the Aussie how he would do it.

 SM> Shuut yor greeat festerin' gob! I doon't need to pass any wee test fur tha
 SM> likes o' a bloodie norsemaan! Ye great thick-headed sasenach! If ye doon't
 SM> have tha sense to know a scotsman when yu see wone, than maybie wot yu
 SM> need is a gud wack upside o' yor haed wi'a caber tu knock some sense inta
 SM> yu!

If I would have shown this to the Collie I once had he would have laught
and said that
it is a bad imitation of Sean Connory. You don't pronounce "s" properly.

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